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Craig Shakespeare’s men have won all five games since he succeeded Claudio Ranieri as manager and they are the Premier League’s most in-form side.

However, Larsson believes that their experiences in the past has shown it doesn’t matter who Sunderland play between now and the end of the season and he insists they will keep fighting, as long as they can mathematically survive.

Sunderland's Seb Larsson (Image: Sunderland AFC)

“One thing that we have learnt from our experiences and being in this situation before is that it doesn’t really matter too much who you play because we have seen enough strange results come in,” Larsson told Sky Sports News.

“For ourselves as well, we have won games where people haven’t gave us a chance and it is going to take something similar this year.

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“I understand if people look at the table and think we don’t have a big chance of survival at the moment, but that is OK because we have put ourselves in that situation so we need to prove people wrong.

“There is no point giving up and laying down because there is still enough points to play for and as long as that is the case, we are going to keep working hard to get those points and climb up the table and survive again.”